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Road to Tenure
/ our USC faculty members itiscuss tht process of attaining tenured status at
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Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
14, M*1
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Cross country runner Kate Neeper has become USC 's best
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Rich* EIim I Daily Trajan
In charge. Vice President Deborah Lammon moderates the Student Senate meeting while senators discuss funding board appointment confirmations Also pictured Jeana Marinelli, secretary, and Daniel Kenny, senator
Senate confirms 19 students to committees
New members will provide fresh perspectives, board members say
By BRIAN REED
AuUtant City Udltor
Student Senate approved the appointment of 19 students to funding committees Tuesday night, paving the way for Senate to begin allocating the more than $220,000 budgeted for student projects.
The students will serve with Senate members and members of other organizations on the Senate Academic Research, Leadership,
Philanthropy, and Discretionary Fund Boards.
These boards are responsible for allocating money to students and organizations. *,.
Students are selected from the student body to be part of these committees so that they can bring a fresh perspective from- outside Senate, said Jacey Reid, director of the Philanthropy Fund.
Diversity on funding committees is a priority, said Reid. Mike Directo, assistant director of academic affairs, and Jordan Orsolini, director of the Leadership Fund agreed.
To some students, Senate can
seem like an illusory organization. Directo said. Including students in the funding committees helps reconnect SenAte to the student body, he said.
Cheyenne Huang, an undeclared sophomore and a newly confirmed member of the Discretionary Fund Board, said she wanted to be a part the committee to get more involved on campus.
As a freshman, she was not very involved, Huang said. This committee seemed like a good way to tran sition to leadership roles on cam pus.
Kia Richards, a junior majoring I see Unite, page 111
Medical residents negotiate pay, hours
Contract will affect 850 residents working in USC-affiliated hospitals
By TANIA VALDEM0R0
Contributing Writer
A union representing USC medical residents began negotiating a new three-year contract last week with Los Angeles County officials. Residents’ pay and working conditions are being discussed, though both sides refused to name specific issues they plan to address.
The Joint Council of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union and County officials anticipate negotiations will last several weeks.
JC1R represents 1,600 residents at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center and King-Drew Medical Center, said SE1U Organizer Puneet Sandhu.
A new contract will affect 850 residents working in USC-affiliated hospitals, said Dr. David Altman, medical director of Los Angeles County Medical Center.
Residency is the period after medical school in which new doctors spend three to Seven years gaining on-the-job training. Medical residents at USC hospitals earn from $35,000 to $56,000 per year depending on their year and rotation. All earn a salary based on a pay scheme negotiated by JCIR and the county, Dr. Altman said.
Resident work hours vary per program. For example, most neurosurgery residents work from 50 to 110 hours per week, said Kathy Guzman, a neurosurgery residency coordinator at LAC-USC Hospital.
, Some residents complain that their salaries are too low compared with the number of hours they work
“We are kept in the hospital for long hours and we re kept there doing non-clinical work, like filling out forms," said Dr. Gary Payinda, a fourth-year resident in emergency medicine.
Guzman said many residents accept the fact that residency is a low-paying enterprise because its part of their education.
“Residents know what they’re getting into when they start. They know these are the dues they have to pay,” Guzman said.
Keeping salaries adjusted to the rising cost of living is another issue JCIR plans to address during the negotiations.
So far, residents’ salaries are indexed to inflation, Altman said.
“In a lot of places, resident pay
has not kept up with the cost of living,” Sandhu said. “It’s a huge problem. Residents come out of medical school with such high loans. It discourages them from going into low-paying residencies.”
JCIR members said its drive to secure better pay is linked with its desire to improve patient care. Having rooms where residents can sleep, and food at the hospital so they can eat is important because they can be better doctors when these basic needs are met, Sandhu said.
Call rooms are rooms where residents sleep when they are on break.
"If you fix patient problems, the residents' problems will go away,” Payinda said.
Current negotiations are affected by recent developments in academic medicine.
I see RmMmiU, page 13 I
Professors debate court decision on recall
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Panel discusses punch cards and appeals court ruling allowing Oct 7 recall
By KEVIN MERICKEL
Assistant City Editor
Professors fielded questions on Tuesdays ruling to continue with the Oct 7 recall election and the accuracy of punch card ballots as part of a recall symposium at E.F. Hutton Park.
The 11-justice panel of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the three-judge ruling. The recall was reinstated for Oct 7.
For a preliminary injunction to be issued, the American Civil Liberties Union must have a strong case, said Elizabeth Garrett professor of law.
For the election to be delayed until March 2004, there had to be a cost to the voters, Garrett said.
Such costs include how to accurately count punch card ballots, a topic the panel discussed extensively.
“Punch card systems are bad ... (because of) basic unfamiliarity with the punch card,” said Michael Alvarez, professor of political science at California Institute of Technology.
Margin of error is greater in heavily populated minority areas, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, senior scholar of the School of Policy Planning and Development
The Los Angeles County Registrar's Office is replacing the previous punch card systems used since 1968 with the new Ink a Vote system for the Oct 7 election.
Ink a Vote lets a voter use a pen to mark a ballot
"Being experimental, it may be worse,” Alvarez said.
I see
page Hi
Total recall.
Marshall Business scholar Paul Miller, left, discusses the California gubernatorial recall with Alison Renteln, professor of political science. The • recall election is set to take place Oct. 7, after a judicial panel approved the date.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
New birth control pill approved
By SHERRY ANNE RUBIANO
Staff Writer
Anew birth control pill called Seasonale, which reduces the regularity of a womans menstrual period from about once every month to about four times each year, was approved Sept 5 by the Food and Drug Administration.
Seasonale contains the same hormones, low-dose estrogen and progestin, that are found in other oral contraceptives. Unlike conventional pills, however, Seasonale users take the pills for a longer span of time.
They take the tablets with the active hormones for 12 weeks, or 84 days. This is followed by a week of placebo pills to keep the user in the habit of taking pills.
Women have their period while taking the placebo tablets.
Most birth control pills are based on a 28-day cycle. Users take the active pills for 21 days, followed by one week of the placebo pills.
While hormone levels differ day-to-day in some birth control pills, each Seasonale contains consistent amounts of hormones, said Dr. Daniel Mishell, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine.
The possibility of having periods less frequently appealed to some students. ■ *-
“Right off the bat, it doesn't sound too horrible,’* said Shayna Fensten, a freshman majoring in communication.
“The more days you can swim and not worry about it in the year" are positive things. Fensten added.
Sophomore Emily Ko agreed
“I can definitely see the convenience of it,” said Ko, a fine arts major.
Ban Laboratories, based in New I Me HmM, page 11

Road to Tenure
/ our USC faculty members itiscuss tht process of attaining tenured status at
the university / 7
'mm
c E 1 9 T 2
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
14, M*1
Of interest...
Cross country runner Kate Neeper has become USC 's best
in a short period of time / It
NewtDlgast 2
Opinions 4 Ufttyie % fg
Staff 4 Ciatsifuuis 12
Crossword it Sports IB
vol CXUV. no. 21 www.dailyuofan.coni
Rich* EIim I Daily Trajan
In charge. Vice President Deborah Lammon moderates the Student Senate meeting while senators discuss funding board appointment confirmations Also pictured Jeana Marinelli, secretary, and Daniel Kenny, senator
Senate confirms 19 students to committees
New members will provide fresh perspectives, board members say
By BRIAN REED
AuUtant City Udltor
Student Senate approved the appointment of 19 students to funding committees Tuesday night, paving the way for Senate to begin allocating the more than $220,000 budgeted for student projects.
The students will serve with Senate members and members of other organizations on the Senate Academic Research, Leadership,
Philanthropy, and Discretionary Fund Boards.
These boards are responsible for allocating money to students and organizations. *,.
Students are selected from the student body to be part of these committees so that they can bring a fresh perspective from- outside Senate, said Jacey Reid, director of the Philanthropy Fund.
Diversity on funding committees is a priority, said Reid. Mike Directo, assistant director of academic affairs, and Jordan Orsolini, director of the Leadership Fund agreed.
To some students, Senate can
seem like an illusory organization. Directo said. Including students in the funding committees helps reconnect SenAte to the student body, he said.
Cheyenne Huang, an undeclared sophomore and a newly confirmed member of the Discretionary Fund Board, said she wanted to be a part the committee to get more involved on campus.
As a freshman, she was not very involved, Huang said. This committee seemed like a good way to tran sition to leadership roles on cam pus.
Kia Richards, a junior majoring I see Unite, page 111
Medical residents negotiate pay, hours
Contract will affect 850 residents working in USC-affiliated hospitals
By TANIA VALDEM0R0
Contributing Writer
A union representing USC medical residents began negotiating a new three-year contract last week with Los Angeles County officials. Residents’ pay and working conditions are being discussed, though both sides refused to name specific issues they plan to address.
The Joint Council of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union and County officials anticipate negotiations will last several weeks.
JC1R represents 1,600 residents at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center and King-Drew Medical Center, said SE1U Organizer Puneet Sandhu.
A new contract will affect 850 residents working in USC-affiliated hospitals, said Dr. David Altman, medical director of Los Angeles County Medical Center.
Residency is the period after medical school in which new doctors spend three to Seven years gaining on-the-job training. Medical residents at USC hospitals earn from $35,000 to $56,000 per year depending on their year and rotation. All earn a salary based on a pay scheme negotiated by JCIR and the county, Dr. Altman said.
Resident work hours vary per program. For example, most neurosurgery residents work from 50 to 110 hours per week, said Kathy Guzman, a neurosurgery residency coordinator at LAC-USC Hospital.
, Some residents complain that their salaries are too low compared with the number of hours they work
“We are kept in the hospital for long hours and we re kept there doing non-clinical work, like filling out forms," said Dr. Gary Payinda, a fourth-year resident in emergency medicine.
Guzman said many residents accept the fact that residency is a low-paying enterprise because its part of their education.
“Residents know what they’re getting into when they start. They know these are the dues they have to pay,” Guzman said.
Keeping salaries adjusted to the rising cost of living is another issue JCIR plans to address during the negotiations.
So far, residents’ salaries are indexed to inflation, Altman said.
“In a lot of places, resident pay
has not kept up with the cost of living,” Sandhu said. “It’s a huge problem. Residents come out of medical school with such high loans. It discourages them from going into low-paying residencies.”
JCIR members said its drive to secure better pay is linked with its desire to improve patient care. Having rooms where residents can sleep, and food at the hospital so they can eat is important because they can be better doctors when these basic needs are met, Sandhu said.
Call rooms are rooms where residents sleep when they are on break.
"If you fix patient problems, the residents' problems will go away,” Payinda said.
Current negotiations are affected by recent developments in academic medicine.
I see RmMmiU, page 13 I
Professors debate court decision on recall
-
Panel discusses punch cards and appeals court ruling allowing Oct 7 recall
By KEVIN MERICKEL
Assistant City Editor
Professors fielded questions on Tuesdays ruling to continue with the Oct 7 recall election and the accuracy of punch card ballots as part of a recall symposium at E.F. Hutton Park.
The 11-justice panel of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the three-judge ruling. The recall was reinstated for Oct 7.
For a preliminary injunction to be issued, the American Civil Liberties Union must have a strong case, said Elizabeth Garrett professor of law.
For the election to be delayed until March 2004, there had to be a cost to the voters, Garrett said.
Such costs include how to accurately count punch card ballots, a topic the panel discussed extensively.
“Punch card systems are bad ... (because of) basic unfamiliarity with the punch card,” said Michael Alvarez, professor of political science at California Institute of Technology.
Margin of error is greater in heavily populated minority areas, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, senior scholar of the School of Policy Planning and Development
The Los Angeles County Registrar's Office is replacing the previous punch card systems used since 1968 with the new Ink a Vote system for the Oct 7 election.
Ink a Vote lets a voter use a pen to mark a ballot
"Being experimental, it may be worse,” Alvarez said.
I see
page Hi
Total recall.
Marshall Business scholar Paul Miller, left, discusses the California gubernatorial recall with Alison Renteln, professor of political science. The • recall election is set to take place Oct. 7, after a judicial panel approved the date.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
New birth control pill approved
By SHERRY ANNE RUBIANO
Staff Writer
Anew birth control pill called Seasonale, which reduces the regularity of a womans menstrual period from about once every month to about four times each year, was approved Sept 5 by the Food and Drug Administration.
Seasonale contains the same hormones, low-dose estrogen and progestin, that are found in other oral contraceptives. Unlike conventional pills, however, Seasonale users take the pills for a longer span of time.
They take the tablets with the active hormones for 12 weeks, or 84 days. This is followed by a week of placebo pills to keep the user in the habit of taking pills.
Women have their period while taking the placebo tablets.
Most birth control pills are based on a 28-day cycle. Users take the active pills for 21 days, followed by one week of the placebo pills.
While hormone levels differ day-to-day in some birth control pills, each Seasonale contains consistent amounts of hormones, said Dr. Daniel Mishell, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine.
The possibility of having periods less frequently appealed to some students. ■ *-
“Right off the bat, it doesn't sound too horrible,’* said Shayna Fensten, a freshman majoring in communication.
“The more days you can swim and not worry about it in the year" are positive things. Fensten added.
Sophomore Emily Ko agreed
“I can definitely see the convenience of it,” said Ko, a fine arts major.
Ban Laboratories, based in New I Me HmM, page 11